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The Gypsy Poet
Sophia E. DiGonis is known by the name, "The Gypsy Poet" Or "Le Poete Gitane" in French, was born on December 7, 1977 in Norfolk, Virgina. She is a best-selling poet who is instrumental in the underground poetry movement that is rising rapidly to the mainstream. She is known for writing poetry that people enjoy sharing on their < on the popular social media website, Facebook and has managed to create poetry that has force in its wordage. She is highly influenced by classics, such as Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as English Poets like John Keats, Lord Byron,Christina Rosetti, American writers such as Anne Bradstreet, Sojourner Truth, Mark Twain, Djuna Barnes, The Bronte Sisters, Jules Verne and Victor Hugo, and many, many others. She has a strong literary background.

DiGonis attended The University of Texas at San Antonio, where her family settled after travels across the East Coast when she was a child. Her first musical influence was an elderly woman named Gertrude Mendel. With Mendel, she received her fundamentals in piano pedagogy, as well as studying the music of Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Rimsky Korsakov and Debussy. Under her study, she had won piano competitions for both The City of San Antonio, Texas, and the State of Texas at the University Interscholastic Leagues. Divisions include, 1st and 2nd. Later, DiGonis studied under her mentor, Barbara Imboden, who is currently a professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio, in Communications. DiGonis's major was Musical Composition with piano and vocal principles, where she finished her studies with a Bachelor's Degree. She plays piano all of her life. and attended the University again in 2009 to attain a courses in English. In the Spring of 2010, DiGonis had won an award for her research in both Music and Literature and how they correlated in the Romantic Era, known as "Common Ground: A Look into Music and Literature in the Romantic Era" and won 2nd place in the conference.

DiGonis also runs a radio program on the web, with her co-host, Girl George, called 'Gypsy Poet Radio, which she started as a way to promote her poetry on the air. Folks such as Chris Gantry, Lyle Tuttle, and Ronnie Godfrey have made appearances. The radio show continues to be a highly-successful radio program and continues to reach high ratings along the internet world.

The name, "The Gypsy Poet" was started as a way to navigate in the social-media world of MySpace, and Facebook and to keep her name out of the spotlight, however, her writing style is unmistakable and uses the name, "The Gypsy Poet" both in English and French, to identify her as the author of her material.